The main headline is that the Community Café closes on Thursday this week, reopening on Tuesday 3rd January at 9.30am. So you’ve got until 4.30pm on Wednesday to enjoy the homemade cake, mince pies, hot drinks and mulled wine. Meanwhile, our Community Shop will mostly be open over the holidays and you’ll find a warm, […]

Come and celebrate the snow and the season in our Community Café from 5 to 7pm tomorrow (Friday.) It’s not often we get snowy scenes like this in the middle of December and we thought a tot of vin chaud would warm the cockles of all our hearts. There’ll also be a mulled wine tasting […]

We’ve got everything you need for a snowed-in week, including fresh essentials: milk, bread, vegetables and eggs. (We’ve also got some brilliant Christmas essentials including mistletoe, angels for your tree, Ilmington Gin and the Special Christmas Edition of the Radio Times!) If anyone is struggling to get out in the icy conditions – and please […]

For birthday boy Kevin Johnson, the answer was our cosy Community Shop – for a mince pie with clotted cream and a cheeky glass of mulled wine. “This is a very quick birthday celebration,” says his wife Jo, “because we’ve got a puppy called Walnut and we can’t leave him for long. He’s a chocolate […]

Hannah O’Malley (left) and Jemima Welch, both 13, took inspiration from business classes at Stratford Girls Grammar School to make their own candles to sell to friends and family. On Saturday they brought their waxy wares to Ilmington Community Café and sold lots of pretty and perfumed candles for MacMillan Cancer. Their business is called […]